Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka aretรฉ), but excellence (aka aretรฉ) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
SocratesThe nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
SocratesIf measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.
Socrates